The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-26
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

lnatcn DOX.
FIFTY THOUSAND. ELEPHANTS year go to
make our piano keys.
THE London postmen have petitioned the
Postmaster-G General to be called letter car
| riers."
/ A NEW OPERA HOUSE at Pittsburg has a pair of
opera glasses attached to each parquet chair by
| gilt chain.
THE French war balloon is made in four sec
tions, so that bullet may go through it with
| out dropping it.
ONE of the attractions of Sacramento, Cal,
| is mummy show-the remains of people of the
| Aztec race, it is supposed.
TIE Changers in New Jersey are making an
effort to have the legal rate of interest in that
State reduced to per cent.
TwENrYsEvEN PRIvATEs of a Posen regiment
have been attacked with trichiniass from eating
raw pork The German commissariat is poor.
| THE Puniaub promises to be the richest prov
ince of India Petroleum has been discovered
| in Bawalpindi, coal in Peshawur, and gold in
| Kuu, up in the HimalayaS.
| NEXT MAY there will be an exhibition of the
work of Berlin apprentices in all the principal
industries and of the pupils in the various tech
nical and trade schools of Berlin.
THE seagulls don't bulge from the marine
| target at which the artillery school at Fortress
| Monroe plays in regulation practice. The often
| SlNe weapons are pig SInOOCnDOreS.
PAUL DU CHAILbU has gone to ST. Petersburg
to study some bronze ornaments lately found on
| the Baltic, supposed to belong to the Vikings,
| about whom NJ. Du Chaillu is an authority.
IT is SAID that hawks are frequently seen fly
! ing southwark on the approach of winter but
are never seen on the return flight, though found
| again in the North when the winter is past.
CREMATION has so grown in favor in Berlin
that crematorium is to be built in the principal
cemetery Hitherto BerlinerS desiring to ere
| mate their dead have been obliged to go to
| Gotha.
MICHIGAN VETERAN of the civil war pos
sesses relic in the shape of an army biscuit
| that was served in the way of rations in 1865.
1t is a less CHASTITY relic than bone and is just
| as hard.
| AN electrical lamp appears to have been in
vented which will burn for twelve hours, with
the light of two and half candles, at a cost of
one penny. 1t has to be charged every twenty
| five days.
| GEORGE DINING committed burglary in Ken
| lucky the other day, and in less than a week he
was captured. at once indicted, tried, con
| victed and sentenced, and the mes day was
| dining in the penitentiary.
| AN immense new locomotive has been built
for the heavy Nyack New York; express train
on the Northern railroad, but it is SO long that
| neither the turn table at Jersey City nor Nyack
! VIII Ouu IA ~ oiuSOhSC4uSubiy IL CetuuOb Dc uStu
Two YOUNG MEN of Garden Plain Kan, fought
with slungshots in church to determine which
| should escort a young woman to her home. One
| of them had his skull fractured and he died
| The minister and his with suffered slight iniu-
| rieS.
Mrs, EAGLES, an elderly woman of Campbell
| county, Va, expressed the wish shortly before
her death that her gold watch be buried with
| her The wish was carried out. and within a
l i'm hR nj OH 1nHt ha
| watch stolen,
| WHILE Sir Salar Jung, who is a Mussuman,
was visiting Droitwich for the baths he cee-
| brated the Mohammedan festival of Zoha. The
| ceremony was merely the slaughter of a goat by
| his own hands. The flesh was distributed
among the English poor.
A COYOTE in Walla Walla was attacked by an
| immense hawk that hit him fair on the back of
| the head, The coyote would duck his head
| then make snap at the hawk, but could not
| reach it, and at the end of twenty minutes was
| literally pecked to death.
| WOMAN SUFFRAGE does not appear to increase
| in popularity in Boston, where women can vote
at school elections if they desire to do so. In
that city the total number of registe red female
| voters in 1885 2.23S, in 1886 it fell to 1,193
| and this year it has dropped to 463.
JAMES MERRITT, residing near Schenectady.
| held his revolver in his hand, and, re marking
| that it contained his last cartridge, asked what
! he should do with it. He had scarcely asked
| the question when the Weapon was discharged,
| and inflicted wound of which Merritt died
ACCORDING to the latest returns of foreigners
| residing in Japan, there are 592 Americans 343
Germans, 1913 Frenchmen, aud 1423 English
| men. or foreigners in government employ,
| there are "a Germans, II Americans, 8 French
men, Italians, 6 Dutchmen and Is Englshmen.
TPE real estate boom in Kansas is likely to
| take a back seat on account of the salt boom
Kingman has found a vein of it beneath her
| Ellsworth has discovered 1855 feet of it, said
to be of the very finest quality, and Wichita has
organized company with 100000 to prepare
| the article for use.
AT locomotive works in Schenectady, N. Y
recently, workman injured Two physi-
clans who attended him said one of his legs
| was broken. After he had spent week in bed
| a third doctor removed the bandages and told
him he ought TIC be going about his business as
| nothing was the matter with his leg, an opinion
| that proved correct.
A TRACT of 1855 acres, embracing Wilmurt
Lake and part of Big Rock Lake, in Herkimer
county. has been bought for $50, 600 and a club
| probably wilt be organized with a membership
| of about twenty to own the property Wilmut
Lake is $500 feet above the level of the sea, is
| fed by springs, and is counted one OF the best
lakes in the Adirondack region for fly fishing for
| speckled trout.
| HENRY CLEws is one of the big Wall street
men who hasn't tumbled into the fashion of
owning big steam yacht During the summer
he went TO Newport every Friday night, too He
says the Pilgrim with its bridal chamber is good
enough for him. In fact, some of the Wall street
men speak of the Pilgrim as Mr.. Cews' yacht,
and add that where other yachts cost their
owners $4,000 a summer, Mr.. Clews' big yacht
only costs him Sl8 a trip
The letters and memoirs of Mme Saint HUI
berty, which were recently discovered in the
shop of Paris antiquary are soon to he pub
lisned. Nine. aint-Huberty was one of the
most famous Paris actresses ana beauties of the
last century. Napoleon l. addressed to her as
artillery Lieutenant the only verses he ever
made in his he. Her end was very sad She
married the Count d'Entraigues, who soon be-
came insane, and was murdered, together with
him, by one of her servants.
ALL telegraph operators boast of the grad
yates of their business, and dream Of some day
being great or rich Among the men who be-
gan by handling the key are Andrew Carnegie d:
Theodore N. Vail, of the Bell Telephone Com.
pany; Gov. Bullock, of Georgia. and ex.(ioy.
Cornell, OF New York. w. j. Johnston the pub.
Usher; r. II. Johnson the President of the Edi-
son Company; Thomas Alva EDISON mud d. Hs
| Bates, the President of the Baltimore aud Ohio
| telegraph. Five of the eight are New Workers.
ACCORDING TO the st. Petersburg Gazette. n
man who describes himself rs an actor anxious
to follow the example Of Rossi and Salvini has
Ia...aW lad.